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space-cyborg t1_izgyuv6 wrote

The three-dimensional bars are terrible. They add nothing to the visualization, and they make the chart harder to read. For example, you can't tell visually that the $18.1B and $17.9B numbers are different, whereas if the bars had flat tops, you could.

The colors also add nothing, since we don't need or have a legend. Color could be better used for a different variable of interest here (like a scale for year of the IPO, or to categorize countries or industries).

It makes no sense to me to have the company name on the bar and the logo above. Put the logos on the bar if you must have them. The company names are also inaccurate: ICBC stands for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; its name is not "ICBC Bank". NTT should be NTT Docomo. SoftBank is, bizarrely, SoftBank Group Corp. It may seem like nitpicking, but it's worth getting company names right. If that creates a problem with disambiguating organizations with similar names, that problem has to be solved in another way.

The comparison of data across 24 years (1988 - 2022) with no inflation adjustment makes the chart difficult to interpret.

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